[vash]

make a freight train take a dirt road is to emphasize someones or somethings, power of persuasion. if you can talk a train off the tracks and onto a dirt road you can talk anyone into anything. that other one, is unknown to me.

one that gets my girlfriend all riled up is "a good rule of thumb". heck even wayne has it scattered throughout his books. and it get the tiny feminist in my girlfriend, well it gets her "panties all up in a bunch". but i can live her rantings, because we are a honeymoon fit. opps, i guess i should explain. rule of thumb is a term that originated from the old days when you could legally beat your wife for disiplinary actions. but you could only do it with a stick no thicker than your thumb. hench a "rule of thumb".